Ongoing Activities

The year 2014 was dedicated to (i) business development, (ii) product development using “fragmented” resources. A summary is offered below:

R&D Portfolio and Projects

The company focuses on two industry-level projects, wireless sensor networks and visible light communication, and one forward-looking research line on energy-efficient resource allocation. Details are shown as follows:

1. Wireless Sensor Networks

Internet of Things and Machine-to-Machine communication have been regarded as a key technology for future intelligent networks in our daily life. Many countries have already laid down strategic planning for this for the coming years and CTTC-HK aims at capitalizing on this movement with our technical competence in the core technology, wireless sensor network, and innovations in applications.

This project is built upon the “rSense project” at CTTC headquarters, and aims at further improving the performance and features so as to address application-specific requirements.

Milestone 1: Serving Smart Plant Business Project

Milestone 3: Pending

Formal partnership for the 3 pilot projects.

Industry-level product development.

Design for Production and Production Capability.

Testing Market Acceptability of Price and Product Features.

2. Visible Light Communications (VLC)

VLC is a signature project of CTTC-HK where innovations meet practical business. The project has been launched under a collaborative framework with partners from Stanford University, University of British Columbia, and Waseda University, with CTTC-HK taking a leading role.

In 2014, the VLC algorithm development faced a financial challenge and was on hold. Yet, industry-grade VLC transmitter prototype was built for a better demo targeting at a better chance of attracting potential investors.